I never escaped when playing this as a kid but I loved the feel and idea of the game :) I wish they would do a remake of this.

Brings back memories !! I had never managed to escape once !! Where was KZfaq when we needed it 🤗

I still remember with pleasure the day I finally managed to escape from that prison camp - 32 years ago! :-D

Great game and I remember this back when I was a kid. Good to see how it ends now; he wakes up and discovers it was a dream! :P

I was very young and I don't think I had a clue but I do remember walking around and 'discovering' things for hours and hours. Nice memories

I used to spend soooo much time playing this but never finished.

Ностальгия по детству) Спасибо) игра просто супер в те времена)))

Loved this game!!! Playing on my older brothers spectrum when he was out!

Either used a poke or I was just more useless than I remember! One missed roll-call and I was in the cooler. First game I played on my own ZX Spectrum, Xmas Day 1988.

I remember Your Sinclair claiming you could find a pole and perform a triple somersault over the fence to escape, haha.

You know what, I offend the internet at times. But was just watching The Great Escape on Sky, thought of many hours at my great cousins Jonathan playing this I used to love going to his house I was only 7 as (I remember Liverpool V Everton FA Cup final when i stayed overnight playing it). A quick google search and here I am. All the comments say exactly what I am thinking. Such an amazing yet impossible game for a 7 and 9 year old. Great memories thanks.

Why has nobody thought to make an updated version This game was brilliant for its time

This was the only computer game my late father (child of the 40's) ever got into. Even I played it for ours as a kid. Without seeing the walkthrough I wouldn't have a clue how to complete it

Man,who didn't fall in love with this game as soon they started to play it? I didn't get very far either but it just sucked you in to it. Brilliant!

My dad had this game on the Spectrum ZX, I used to watch him play it all the time, though he did struggle with it. So many memories just listening to the sounds... Not sure what year this game came out I think my earliest memories of watching my dad play was when I was about 5 lol

3:46 damn that short moment scared me.

Someting I only discovered 30 years after first playing this: if you walk up to the gatehouse (the building with the guard patroling on the roof) whilst whilst wearing the uniform and carrying the papers and use the papers, the guards will literally let you out the camp! You pop out the door that looks a bit like it is made of corregated steel... It doesn't help much though, as trying to escape in the uniform gets you shot - but it does mean you only have to cut the fence once (to drop the compass), the second time you can just waltz out the front door. The compass + money bag is also an acceptable escape combo, IIRC. I beleive the radio was supposed to be a way to help resotre moral, rather than just a red herring, but it never found how to use it (I tried disassembling to look for text strings but never found any). I also never managed to get poisioning the dogs with the posion food to ever work....

I would never have been able to finish this game had someone I knew not mentioned that damned green key "hidden" underneath the watchtower near the fence.

This and Where Time Stood Still were the arguably the best games on Spectrum. Spent ages playing both of them but never completed them.

One of the very best Speccy games. Spent LONG hours on it.

I rem the excitement of buying a Speccy mag which had the camp map showing you where the things were and a guide. I was so happy as i could not make it passed a day without getting caught. I got the cutters and papers and through the fence i went. Hurray i was FREE. Nope got caught as no compass. Gutted i was.

Great game back then, way ahead of it's time. Branching storyline? Scrolling background? Isometric view? Unheard of!

bought this game Xmas '86, was so excited to play it as it had great reviews in all the ZX mags

Fanastic game! I remember. I've played many many hours, days... Sweet and brillant

Escaping was easy, but you always got recaptured without the right gear. Great game. Would make a decent mobile game even now.

I never completed this game. Great to see how it was done

I loved this game (imagine how little they had to create the atmosphere...) but probably still couldn't figure out what the heck is going on without this video. I even made a map but got forever-jailed still :-D

I could never work it out as a little kid. The guard dog used to always get me. Haha

Fabulous, another amazing and epic game of my childhood, so nice to see it,! Thank you so much

Loved this game! I never fully completed it the correct way but did escape the camp at least. I always thought the guards searched for you if you missed roll-call & if caught, you were thrown into solitary.

Just gave the 500th like :) awesome walkthroughs you've got here!! have a great day

I loved this game, one of the few I did complete. I think it was Your Sinclair that did the map as a big pull out special one Christmas issue. :)

look at those cute dogs around the 28 minute mark!

Used to play this a lot even though i didnt have a clue wot I was doing ha. My first computer was zx spectrum black plastic keys version back in 1986. I was 10. Didn't know wot to do on a lot of my games back in those days. Had a good collection though. Miss my spectrum. Wish I still had it. 😢

Used to play this all the time, had lots of fun with the guards uniform and running about in tunnels and evading the search lights at nightime. if I recall correctly you could end game it a few different ways.

Even though I knew about using the spade to access the exercise yard via tunnel I escaped the harder way with more chance of being caught at the area at 28:28 in the video. That way there are two sets of fences to cut through in sucession. This means the spade isn't compulsory for completion and all you items you need can be found in red cross parcels.

Brings back great memories, this, starquake and Feud :)

I loved this. Good memories

For me , this was the very 1st real masterpiece with complex mechanics i´ve ever played

Memories Bought this when i was around 10 at a carboot sale in the 1980s

one my fav games ever good old days makes me want to take my spec out of the box and play it again

I never got out! Looking forward to this!

Impressive graphics.

When I used to play it I found a secret message on an old cine reel, when you played the reel the message said "he takes the bribe and acts as a decoy".....but people Ive spoke to who played this have never come across this reel... 🤔

this game is computer art..., every player nows the feeling when you play this game...ulfortunatly it was so difficult that playing it became boring after some times...

I escaped once, but I was recaptured because I didn't have the map and compass. I felt cheated.

Very nice memory. Thanks a lot.

Loved this game all those years ago, no waynofnknsowing where all the items were, won the game a few times. I liked the newer version that came out on pc :)

Got out at the end with map compass etc...and caught by the dogs who put me in solitary

I always played with O/P/Q/A/Space.

My favorite! Along with Warewolves of London

I remember playing this back in the day, but never managed to escape. Now seeing what happened after the escape I expected more, it was a bit of a let down. Surely a screen of you being commended back in Blighty with some medal ceremony or at least a narrative of what happened after (just a page pic, nothing elaborate of course) would have been at least reward for what was quite a taxing escape should have been put in place!!! Great to see how to complete it though. Loved the game, it was challenging, but as a kid after a while I guess I got bored and gave up. Have positive memories of the game though and great to see it here. I think it was one of the better isometric games that you had to use your brain to get anywhere rather than just running around zapping or avoiding things.

You sir are freaking awesome... :) thank you.

I have a memory of going to my cousins house and him pulling a massive map he had made from under his bed of this game.

I remember this game…very hard & I don’t think any of my friends ever escaped Brilliant game

True, and is not as if watching the video answer all questions :) Crazy adventure-puzzles.. Lovely game mood though, one of the best!

If you held down fire when using a key in a door (as if you were holding the key in the door), you could restore your morale back to the top of the flag-pole.

Очень крутая игра! Проходил раз 10 её в то время.

I tried trapping a fellow prisoner from leaving a room until night time..but the game crashed just as the bell for roll call went off. I always wondered what would have happened if I'd been successfully and done it lol

so you didn't need to poison the dogs or give the chocolate to inmate to create chaos during roll call? I remember trying so hard to figure which two items you need to get the right ending (I couldn't speak english well, so it was even harder)

Great game this one. Couldn’t beat it though

awesome game, had so much fun I didn't want to escape. it was fairly easy though, once you had the guard uniform , wire cutters and poison meat all stored in th e tunnel. where time stood still was a lot harder.

asa kid i kept thinking for years there were several ways to escape. I never figured how to escape until I checked walkthroughs years later...but overall there is only really one way to get out

Leaving keys laying around and an optional roll call, where is Colonel Klink?

Spent many hours on this game as a little kid.

Was there a way to get on the roof ?

I loved this can they bring it back

You escaped even without using the uniform. Nice.

Why on earth did you have to collect and stash all those objects in the tunnel (like the radio, food, pepper, uniform etc) that were never used in game ?

This reminds me of a joke: An Irishman was in a German prisoner-of-war camp, and he asked the gate guard if he could go down to the shop to buy a packet of cigarettes. Unbelievably, the gate guard let him go. Ten minutes later, the Irishman came back with 20 Marlboro...

Seem to be so many things picked up and put in the tunnel but never used?

fantastic

This was ported horribly onto c64 as many games were. C64 version vastly slower than this, but despite that I loved this weird, almost incomprehensible game. Used to love wearing the guard's uniform and roleplaying.

I still don't understand what's happening here, 20 years later lol

I've beat it many times, but still - some of the items left unused...

Jagged Aliance 0 ?

I never escaped! I'll have to get it out the loft and see if it still works (do they even connect to TV's now?)

I remember playing this and enjoying but I had no idea what I was doing.

I loved this game and skool daze

Есть еще локации которые тут не были показаны. Там еще есть предметы. Так же не использованы некоторые предметы. Например Бутылочка+Еда=будет отравленая еда.(В игре можно комбинировать). Хорошо приманивает собак. Предпоследний предмет(по почте) используется в комнате героя. (с буржуйкой и секретным ходом). Ну и по мелочи еще. А в общем да. Прошел. Не поймали и ладно.

I had this on the C64. It was a good game, but wasn't as speedy as this. Isometric 3D was not a strong point for the breadbin. ;)

Well thank god for KZfaq being around and existing for such rare unforgettable or forgettable films games and such eh! But not everything that KZfaq doesn't have though!

I escaped once hours of fun and way ahead of its time

Only ever got as far as about 02:36! :)

Looks better than the c64 version!

Would love a remake of this game.

i played so many times on my c64...

I just started playing using an emulator, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to pick the objects up

had this on spectrum +3 never escaped... stole the officers uniform tho.... found myself lost in tunnels.. or in prision for ever lol

1988 год! Вот это да!))

Some cheat is being used here. Missed roll call & nothing happened when caught by camp commander

epic ending

What does the flag represent?

I used to play this when I was little, I never got the point of it, and til this day.. I still dont lol

один из лучших игр всех истории

never escaped an didn't understand what some items represent are. icons are not informative at all imho

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What's that?

great game, i could pick a lock quicker than him tho lol

half an hour!! wow, i never completed it, never had the cheats!